The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-11
THE PRESIDENTS TRIP.
Incidents of the Tour Through
the West and South.
The Special Train Bearing Them
Rapidly from Place to Place.

trip West and South. Besides the President
and Mrs. Cleveland the passengers of the
special train were: Colonel Lamont, Mr.. ".
S. Bissell, of Buffalo, and DR.. J. D. Bryant,
Of New York, together with two journal
ISIS representing the Press Associations,
and an artist for an illustrated weekly. A
crowd gathered at the depot in Washington
to see the party off.
The run from Washington to York, Penn.
was made without notable incident. At
way stations and hamlets little groups
OF people stood on the platforms
and embankments and saluted the pass
ing train enthusiastically. AT York large
crowd had gathered, and the President and
Mrs. Cleveland came out on the platform
and were cheered. At Harrisburg the ex-
gerience of York was repeated; likewise at
Huntingdon and IewiStOwn. When Altoona
was reached about !, 200 people were gathered,
and the Presidential party received an ova-
ton. At Pittsburg the President held five
minutes reception, and then the party re-
tired for the night.
Daybreak found the Presidents train in
Western Ohio, about two miles west of Co
lumbus 1t was moving upon single track
lines, and its printed special time card bore
the legend: This tram will run extra with alb
solute right of track over all trains" About
1000 persons had gathered at Columbus, but
no stop was made. At Bradford Junction,
at o'clock, the President made his first ap-
pearance, and greeted little crowd of a
hundred which had gathered about his car
with Good Morning.
eve would like, also, to see your wife" said
one OF the crowd.
That is impossible now,n replied the Presi-
dent. She has had a. hard day task before
ler and is resting"
well, we ara right glad to see you, sir"
said the spokesman of the crowd.
Il thank you for tina t, rejoined the Presi
dent, but of the two, l expect you would
prefer to SEE Mrs. Cleveland"
At Richmond, Ind, half acre of solid hui
manity awaited the train. The five-minute
stop was spent in handshaking the President
remaining upon the platform of his car and
graSping the hands reached to him.
At Indianapolis the Presidential party
stopped about five hours. There was pro-
cession, consisting of military and civil
which it passed to the State House
was lined with cheering specta-
tors. The President and Mrs Cleveland
with ex-senator Mcdonald, rode in an open
eight powerful gray horses, gayly Ca
parisoned From the grand stand at
the State House, in presence of $4,000
spectators, Governor Gray welcomed the
President, who replied in short speech, com
olimenting the people or the State and city,
and paying tribute to the memory of the
ate Vice President Hendricks. After
the speech Mr.. Cleveland held a public
reception in the State House rotunda. Then
the President and his wife called on Mrs.
and afterwards visited Mrs. Nc
Donald, Iunching at both houses. The party
left Indianapolis at 3:3G.
1t was dark when the special train reached
Terre Haute, Ind, when another reception
was held in the grand square before
about twenty thousand people. The Presi-
dent was received by Senator Voor-
bees, ex-Secretary Thompson, and a
Committee of prominent Citizens
Mr.. Thompson welcomed the President,
who made another short address, in which he
referred particularly, and i'll complimentary
terms, to the Tall Sycamore OF the
Wabash" as Senator Voorhees, is Familiarity
a large crowd witnessed the special trains
departure from Terre Haute. On the way
70 the Terre Haute depot middle-aged man
climbed on the carriage from behind. The
driver whipped up and tried to leave him,
but in vain. The escort ordered the
man away, but he theoretically re-
fused to go. Two or three of the mounted
men tried to ride him down, but he cursed
them savagely and refused to bulge. Mrs.
Cleveland then turned to him and said:
please let go. sir, and the man dropped Off
as though shot and skunk away in the dark
ness. The crowd. though turbulent and
sometimes wildly demOnstrative was good
latured and harmless
There were bontires, torch and Chinese
lantern displays, and brass band serenades at
nearly all the stations between Terre Haute
and St. Louis. At Efingham a platform,
ten by fifteen feet, gave way, and thirty or
forty persons disappeared. Their fall was
not more than two or three feet, and no one
was hurt
The train arrived at East ST. Louis, Ill,
On the Illinois side of the Mississippi river, at
II :45 Saturday night, and was met by Mayor
Francis, of st. Louis, and the Citizens Com
mittee, who escorted the Presidential party
across the great iron bridge in carriages.
This was the signal for a burst of cheers
and glare Of fireworks. The walls of the
bridge were crowded with people who fol-
lowed the carriages on the run. A banner
stretched across the bridge at the Mis-
souri, line gave Welcome to Missouri"
At the entrance to the city a
dense mass of people almost blocked
the road, but a charge of mounted police
feared way. The cheers swelled into an
walton as the party passed the gates at the
western end of the bridge. The city was il
If scarlet, green, amber, white, and blue,
md decorated in profusion with bunting.
Before the Presid MT blazed a trans
'arency of himself and on the streets
o his left hung the transparencles
f Grant and Lincoln. AS the carriages
oiled up on the granite streets the horses
tarted on q more rapid gait, and the crowd |
waved back to let them pass, and then !
oinei in the run to cheer them on For |
oxen blocks an unbroken line of people |
tOOd on either side, and poured forth |
volume of sound as one voice. In |
short time the party reached Mayor Franciss |
ONE and soon retired for the night. Mrs. |
;!es Gland was considerably fatigued from the !
)ltg journey. On Sunday the President and |
is wife, accompanied by Mayor Francis and |
life, attended morning services in the Wash
lgton Avenue Presbyterian Church. = |
lrge tErong gathered both inside and outside
ne church. The rest of the day
Oent by the Presidential party in short
rive to Shaw's Botanical Gardens and in !